Winnipeg has named Di Brandt the city's first poet laureate. Brandt was selected by the Winnipeg Arts Council and members of the local poetry community for her "artistry, experience and commitment to the community." In ... Read More »

Canadian author and screenwriter Tessa McWatt is one of two winners of this year's Eccles British Library Writer's Award. The award, now in its seventh year, promotes awareness of the British Library collections relating to the U.S., Canada, and ... Read More »

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario has released its shortlist for this year's Speaker’s Book Award. Among this year's nominees are Shawn Micallef, for this book Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (McClelland & Stewart); Toronto Star reporter ... Read More »

Katherena Vermette's debut novel The Break (House of Anansi Press) has won CODE's 2017 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature. A jury of Indigenous writers and educators selected the winning ... Read More »

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has named U.S. journalist Susan Orlean the new Rogers Communications Chair in Literary Journalism. Orleans, who has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1992, is ... Read More »

During her acceptance speech for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award on Nov. 21, Jan Thornhill thanked the jury members for choosing a work of non-fiction for the $30,000 prize, saying, "as much as we ... Read More »

In 2001, Michael Redhill walked onto the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize stage as a finalist, for his debut novel Martin Sloane. Sixteen years later, on Nov. 20, he was declared winner of the $100,000 prize, for his ... Read More »

Poet Sonnet L'Abbé was awarded the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award on Nov. 18 during the annual Indie Literary Market in Toronto. L'Abbé, who resides on Vancouver Island, won the prize for Anima Canadensis, a collection of poems published earlier this ... Read More »